Knowledge as a Service
Mateo Mendoza
Areas of Practice
Mateo has over 20 years of professional experience in financial law and contracts with a focus on energy, infrastructure, transportation, corporate finance, and financial derivatives. He provides legal advice to sponsors, lenders and investors in strategic deals and projects, including toll roads, massive transportation systems, ports, airports, energy transition projects, exotic capital markets products and other cutting-edge transactions requiring innovation and critical legal thinking. He has worked in Colombia and in New York as international associate of A&O Shearman in the Capital Markets, Derivatives and Projects practices.
Mateo is a frequent guest panelist on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Colombia and the region. He is also a professor of law at the Universidad de Los Andes where he teaches Project Finance to undergraduate law students, as well as International Financial Transactions and Derivatives in postgraduate law programs.
- Corporate financing. Structured financing. Capital markets.
- Public credit. Fintech financing.
- Derivatives and treasury products.
- Financial regulation. Debt refinancing and restructuring.
Professional
- Admitted to the practice of law in Colombia.
Academic
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), NYU School of Law.
- Specialization in Financial Legislation, Universidad de Los Andes.
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Minor in Finance and Minor in International Business, Universidad de Los Andes.
Languages: Spanish and English
- LACCA Approved | Banking & Finance - Latin America's Top Private Practitioners
- The Legal 500 | Banking & Finance - Leading Partner
- The Legal 500 | Capital Markets - Next Generation Partner
- IFRL 1000 | Banking - Highly Regarded
- IFRL 1000 | Capital Markets - Highly Regarded
- Chambers & Partners | Banking & Finance
- Chambers & Partners | Capital Markets
- Best Lawyers | Project Finance, Development Finance, Banking and Financial Law
Citations :
- Chambers & Partners 2024 “Mateo Mendoza possesses excellent commercial and professional management skills. He has outstanding knowledge and can handle complex situations proposing negotiations and business alternatives”.
- Chambers & Partners 08/2024 “Mateo Mendoza is a dynamic lawyer in Colombia’s capital markets sphere who boasts experience advising both local and international underwriters on debt capital market transactions”
- The Legal 500 "Mateo Mendoza is a magnificent lawyer, able to think ahead of potential issues and think out-of-the-box on an array of solutions"